different between impose vs imposer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imposer (“to lay on, impose”), taking the place of Latin imponere (“to lay on, impose”), from in (“on, upon”) + ponere (“to put, place”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?po?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)

1. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.

   Congress imposed new tariffs.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)

   I don't wish to impose upon you.

3. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

   Social relations impose courtesy
4. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
5. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
6. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

Derived terms

• imposure
• superimpose

Related terms

• imposition

Translations

Further reading

• impose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• impose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impose at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mopies, pomeis

French

Verb

impose

1. first-person singular present indicative of imposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of imposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
5. second-person singular imperative of imposer

Italian

Verb

impose

1. third-person singular past historic of imporre

English

Etymology

impose +? -er

Noun

imposer (plural imposers)

1. One who imposes.

References

• imposer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imposer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• porimes, promise, semipro

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impono, imponere, and modeled after French im- +? poser. Cf. the Old French form emposer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.po.ze/

Verb

imposer

1. to impose
2. (reflexive) to triumph, to win

3. (reflexive) to establish oneself, to make a name for oneself

Conjugation

Derived terms

• en imposer
• imposant

Anagrams

• promise

Further reading

• “imposer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).